Doctrine of the Will. Asa Mahan
GODS PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE LIBERTY OF CREATURES.
SENSES IN WHICH GOD PURPOSED MORAL GOOD AND EVIL.
DEATH OF THE INCORRIGIBLE PREORDAINED BUT NOT WILLED.
GOD NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE INCORRIGIBLE.
MEN NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SIN OF THEIR PROGENITORS.
PRESENT IMPOSSIBILITIES REQUIRED.
SINCERITY, AND NOT INTENSITY, THE TRUE STANDARD.
AN ACT OF WILL MAY RESULT FROM A VARIETY OF MOTIVES.
LOVING WITH GREATER INTENSITY AT ONE TIME THAN ANOTHER.
MOMENTARY REVOLUTIONS OF CHARACTER.
THOSE WHO ARE OR ARE NOT TRULY VIRTUOUS, HOW DISTINGUISHED.
SEC. II. TEST OF CONFORMITY TO MORAL PRINCIPLE.
LOVE AS REQUIRED BY THE MORAL LAW.
IDENTITY OF CHARACTER AMONG ALL BEINGS MORALLY VIRTUOUS.
ACTION OF THE WILL IN THE DIRECTION OF THE NATURAL PROPENSITIES.—EMOTION, DESIRE, AND WISH DEFINED.
SEC. II. GENERAL TOPICS SUGGESTED BY THE TRUTH ILLUSTRATED IN THE PRECEDING SECTION.
CONVICTIONS, FEELINGS AND EXTERNAL ACTIONS—WHY REQUIRED, OR PROHIBITED.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN RESPECT TO SUCH PHENOMENA.
FEELINGS HOW CONTROLLED BY THE WILL.
RELATION OF FAITH TO OTHER EXERCISES MORALLY RIGHT.
MEN OFTEN VOLUNTARY IN THEIR OPINIONS.
ERROR NOT FROM THE INTELLIGENCE, BUT THE WILL.
SO OF THE SECONDARY FACULTIES.
ERROR, WHERE FOUND.—ASSUMPTION.
INTELLECT NOT DECEIVED IN PRE-JUDGMENTS.
THE MIND HOW INFLUENCED BY PRE-JUDGMENTS.
INFLUENCES WHICH INDUCE FALSE ASSUMPTIONS.
CASES IN WHICH WE ARE APPARENTLY, THOUGH NOT REALLY, MISLED BY THE INTELLIGENCE.